Richard Sutch
Biographic Data
| ID | 3822758 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Sutch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Sutch |
| SIGNATURE | SUTCH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 178 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Economics and the Historian
These essays provide a thorough introduction to economics for historians. The authors, all eminent scholars, show how to use economic thinking, economic models, and economic methods to enrich historical research. They examine such vital issues as long-term trends, institutions, labor—including an engaging dialogue between a labor historian and a labor economist—international affairs, and money and banking. Scholars and teachers of history will we…
The One Percent across Two Centuries: A Replication of Thomas Piketty's Data on the Concentration of Wealth in the United States
This exercise reproduces and assesses the historical time series on the top shares of the wealth distribution for the United States presented by Thomas Piketty in Capital in the Twenty-First Century . Piketty's best-selling book has gained as much attention for its extensive presentation of detailed historical statistics on inequality as for its bold and provocative predictions about a continuing rise in inequality in the twenty-first century. He…
One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation
Settler Economies in World History
Introduction: Toward a Unified Approach to the Economic History of Settler Economies
Settler Economies in World History is a comparative, wide-ranging historical study of the experience of the modern settler societies that have followed a distinctive economic and institutional path to the present from their neo-European origins
Why the Settlers Soared: The Dynamics of Immigration and Economic Growth in the “Golden Age” for Settler Societies
Settler societies are created by migration. The major settler societies were initially founded by people who established economic, political, and social structures conducive to economic growth. This chapter argues that they were beneficiaries of the massive waves of emigration from Europe in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The “golden age” for settler societies was the mass migration of peoples and the massive flows of investment ou…
Slave prices, value of the slave stock, and annual estimates of the slave population: 1800–1862
The Historical Statistics of the United States Online Edition: Millennial Edition
One Kind of Freedom: Reconsidered (and Turbo Charged)
Fixing the Facts: Editing of the 1880 U.S. Census of Occupations with Implications for Long-Term Labor-Force Trends and the Sociology of Official Statistics
(1996). Fixing the Facts. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 5-24
Myth of the Industrial Scrap Heap: A Revisionist View of Turn-of-the-Century American Retirement
Using the census survival method to calculate net flows across employment states between 1900 and 1910, we find that approximately one-fifth of all men who reached the age of 55 eventually retired before death. Many of these retirees appear to have planned their withdrawal from paid employment by accumulating assets, becoming self-employed, and then liquidating their assets to provide a stream of income to finance consumption in old age. This "mo…
The Historical Labor Statistics Project at the University of California
All Things Reconsidered: The Life-Cycle Perspective and the Third Task of Economic History
I suggest that converting economic history from a topic to a discipline requires three steps: economic theory and quantitative methodology must be relevant and required for writing and teaching good economic history; economic history and historical statistics must be relevant and necessary for writing and teaching good economic theory; and economic history must be relevant and required for writing and teaching good history. Over the past 50 years…
The Trend in the Rate of Labor Force Participation of Older Men, 1870–1930: A Reply to Moen
In the 1986 volume of this JOURNAL we discussed the frequency of retirement and downward occupational mobility (on-the-job retirement) of older men in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century. 1 As we noted, study of retirement in the years before World War II is hampered by the lack of data on the labor force status of individuals. Indeed, until the concept of “gainful employment” was replaced by that of the “labor force” in 1940, …
Tontine Insurance and the Armstrong Investigation: A Case of Stifled Innovation, 1868–1905
Tontine insurance, introduced in 1868, combined the features of life insurance with an unusual old-age saving plan. A portion of the annual premium was accumulated in a fund that was divided among the surviving policyholders after twenty years. By 1905, two-thirds of all life insurance in force was of this type. Despite consumer appeal, sales of tontine policies were prohibited in 1906 after the Armstrong Investigation charged the tontine busines…
The Labor of Older Americans: Retirement of Men On and Off the Job, 1870–1937
Labor force participation rates for American men sixty and over are estimated for the period 1870 through 1937. They suggest a higher frequency of retirement and quite different trends in the incidence of retirement than have usually been supposed. Evidence is also presented to establish that many older industrial workers changed to less renumerative and less demanding occupations late in their working life. This “on-the-job retirement” may have …
On Energy Policy Models
Many energy models cannot be relied upon in forecasting or policy analysis. The quality of the data is often poor, and the theoretical underpinnings tend to be inadequate. These points are illustrated by example
[On Energy Policy Models]: Rejoinder
Explorations in the New Economic History: Essays in Honor of Douglass C. North
After Slavery: Black Labour and the Postwar Southern Economy
Race, Class, and Poverty in the Post-Civil War South
One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation
One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation
Growth and welfare in the American South of the nineteenth century
Credit merchandising in the post-emancipation south: Structure, conduct, and performance
The Labor of Older Americans: Retirement of Men On and Off the Job, 1870–1937
Labor force participation rates for American men sixty and over are estimated for the period 1870 through 1937. They suggest a higher frequency of retirement and quite different trends in the incidence of retirement than have usually been supposed. Evidence is also presented to establish that many older industrial workers changed to less renumerative and less demanding occupations late in their working life. This “on-the-job retirement” may have …
Debt Peonage in the Cotton South After the Civil War
This condition of affairs in the South introduced a vast credit system whose tremendous evils and exorbitant exactions have brought poverty and bankruptcy to thousands of families. As a policy, it is vindictive in its subtle sophistry; as a system, it has crushed out all independence and reduced its victims to a coarse species of servile slavery
Reckoning with Slavery. A Critical Study in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery
Journal Article DAVID (P. A.), GUTMAN (H. G.), SUTCH (R.), TEMIN (P.) and WRIGHT (G.) Reckoning with Slavery. Get access Reckoning with Slavery. A Critical Study in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery. By P. A. David, H. G. Gutman, R. Sutch, P. Temin and G Wright. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. Pp. xvi + 398. £8.75 hardback, £2.95 paperback.) Barry Supple Barry Supple University of Sussex Search for other works by this a…
The impact of the Civil War and of emancipation on Southern agriculture
Myth of the Industrial Scrap Heap: A Revisionist View of Turn-of-the-Century American Retirement
Using the census survival method to calculate net flows across employment states between 1900 and 1910, we find that approximately one-fifth of all men who reached the age of 55 eventually retired before death. Many of these retirees appear to have planned their withdrawal from paid employment by accumulating assets, becoming self-employed, and then liquidating their assets to provide a stream of income to finance consumption in old age. This "mo…
Tontine Insurance and the Armstrong Investigation: A Case of Stifled Innovation, 1868–1905
Tontine insurance, introduced in 1868, combined the features of life insurance with an unusual old-age saving plan. A portion of the annual premium was accumulated in a fund that was divided among the surviving policyholders after twenty years. By 1905, two-thirds of all life insurance in force was of this type. Despite consumer appeal, sales of tontine policies were prohibited in 1906 after the Armstrong Investigation charged the tontine busines…
Debt Management and the Term Structure of Interest Rates: An Empirical Analysis of Recent Experience
Fixing the Facts: Editing of the 1880 U.S. Census of Occupations with Implications for Long-Term Labor-Force Trends and the Sociology of Official Statistics
(1996). Fixing the Facts. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 5-24
Credit merchandising in the post-emancipation south: Structure, conduct, and performance
The Trend in the Rate of Labor Force Participation of Older Men, 1870–1930: A Reply to Moen
In the 1986 volume of this JOURNAL we discussed the frequency of retirement and downward occupational mobility (on-the-job retirement) of older men in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century. 1 As we noted, study of retirement in the years before World War II is hampered by the lack of data on the labor force status of individuals. Indeed, until the concept of “gainful employment” was replaced by that of the “labor force” in 1940, …
The One Percent across Two Centuries: A Replication of Thomas Piketty's Data on the Concentration of Wealth in the United States
This exercise reproduces and assesses the historical time series on the top shares of the wealth distribution for the United States presented by Thomas Piketty in Capital in the Twenty-First Century . Piketty's best-selling book has gained as much attention for its extensive presentation of detailed historical statistics on inequality as for its bold and provocative predictions about a continuing rise in inequality in the twenty-first century. He…
All Things Reconsidered: The Life-Cycle Perspective and the Third Task of Economic History
I suggest that converting economic history from a topic to a discipline requires three steps: economic theory and quantitative methodology must be relevant and required for writing and teaching good economic history; economic history and historical statistics must be relevant and necessary for writing and teaching good economic theory; and economic history must be relevant and required for writing and teaching good history. Over the past 50 years…
The Ex-Slave in the Post-Bellum South: A Study of the Economic Impact of Racism in a Market Environment
Immediately after the Civil War, southern landowners attempted to preserve the plantation system by offering to hire the newly freed ex-slaves on an annual contract for wages. However, serious problems soon developed. Foremost among these were difficulties engendered by views of white landlords and white overseers regarding the performance of the free black labor. Because they insisted that blacks were incapable of working productively without st…
One Kind of Freedom: Reconsidered (and Turbo Charged)
Growth and welfare in the American South of the nineteenth century
Reckoning with Slavery: A Critical Study in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery
Journal Article Reckoning with Slavery: A Critical Study in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery. By Paul A. David, Herbert G. Gutman, Richard Sutch, Peter Temin, and Gavin Wright. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. xvi + 398 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliographical references, and index. Cloth, $15.00; paper, $4.50.) Get access Harold D. Woodman Harold D. Woodman Purdue University Search for other works by this author …
Slave prices, value of the slave stock, and annual estimates of the slave population: 1800–1862
The Historical Labor Statistics Project at the University of California
One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation
Reckoning with Slavery: A Critical Study in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery
Debt Management and the Term Structure of Interest Rates: An Empirical Analysis of Recent Experience
The Term Structure of Interest Rates: Expectations and Behavior Patterns . Burton Gordon Malkiel
Debt Peonage in the Cotton South After the Civil War
This condition of affairs in the South introduced a vast credit system whose tremendous evils and exorbitant exactions have brought poverty and bankruptcy to thousands of families. As a policy, it is vindictive in its subtle sophistry; as a system, it has crushed out all independence and reduced its victims to a coarse species of servile slavery
The Ex-Slave in the Post-Bellum South: A Study of the Economic Impact of Racism in a Market Environment
Immediately after the Civil War, southern landowners attempted to preserve the plantation system by offering to hire the newly freed ex-slaves on an annual contract for wages. However, serious problems soon developed. Foremost among these were difficulties engendered by views of white landlords and white overseers regarding the performance of the free black labor. Because they insisted that blacks were incapable of working productively without st…
The treatment received by American slaves: A critical review of the evidence presented in Time on the Cross
The impact of the Civil War and of emancipation on Southern agriculture
Reckoning with Slavery: A Critical Study in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery
Reckoning with Slavery: A Critical Study in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery
Journal Article Reckoning with Slavery: A Critical Study in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery. By Paul A. David, Herbert G. Gutman, Richard Sutch, Peter Temin, and Gavin Wright. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. xvi + 398 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliographical references, and index. Cloth, $15.00; paper, $4.50.) Get access Harold D. Woodman Harold D. Woodman Purdue University Search for other works by this author …
Reckoning with Slavery. A Critical Study in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery
Journal Article DAVID (P. A.), GUTMAN (H. G.), SUTCH (R.), TEMIN (P.) and WRIGHT (G.) Reckoning with Slavery. Get access Reckoning with Slavery. A Critical Study in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery. By P. A. David, H. G. Gutman, R. Sutch, P. Temin and G Wright. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. Pp. xvi + 398. £8.75 hardback, £2.95 paperback.) Barry Supple Barry Supple University of Sussex Search for other works by this a…
Reckoning with Slavery: A Critical Study in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery
Quantifying Slavery and the Slave Trade
Race, Class, and Poverty in the Post-Civil War South
One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation
One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation
Growth and welfare in the American South of the nineteenth century
Credit merchandising in the post-emancipation south: Structure, conduct, and performance
One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation
One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation
After Slavery: Black Labour and the Postwar Southern Economy
On Energy Policy Models
Many energy models cannot be relied upon in forecasting or policy analysis. The quality of the data is often poor, and the theoretical underpinnings tend to be inadequate. These points are illustrated by example
[On Energy Policy Models]: Rejoinder
Explorations in the New Economic History: Essays in Honor of Douglass C. North
The Labor of Older Americans: Retirement of Men On and Off the Job, 1870–1937
Labor force participation rates for American men sixty and over are estimated for the period 1870 through 1937. They suggest a higher frequency of retirement and quite different trends in the incidence of retirement than have usually been supposed. Evidence is also presented to establish that many older industrial workers changed to less renumerative and less demanding occupations late in their working life. This “on-the-job retirement” may have …
Tontine Insurance and the Armstrong Investigation: A Case of Stifled Innovation, 1868–1905
Tontine insurance, introduced in 1868, combined the features of life insurance with an unusual old-age saving plan. A portion of the annual premium was accumulated in a fund that was divided among the surviving policyholders after twenty years. By 1905, two-thirds of all life insurance in force was of this type. Despite consumer appeal, sales of tontine policies were prohibited in 1906 after the Armstrong Investigation charged the tontine busines…
The Trend in the Rate of Labor Force Participation of Older Men, 1870–1930: A Reply to Moen
In the 1986 volume of this JOURNAL we discussed the frequency of retirement and downward occupational mobility (on-the-job retirement) of older men in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century. 1 As we noted, study of retirement in the years before World War II is hampered by the lack of data on the labor force status of individuals. Indeed, until the concept of “gainful employment” was replaced by that of the “labor force” in 1940, …
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